A lot of people claim that in-app purchases are just like pushing another coin into an arcade machine, and in some cases the analogy works pretty well. You're paying to keep going after making a mistake, and that's fair enough.

Final Fantasy: All The Bravest is different. There's a dark, villainous truth at the core of Square Enix's latest assault on the App Store that Sephiroth himself would be proud of.

But, before we get to that, we should meet the heroes of the piece. There are, after all, lots of them.

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The game is a pixel-style series of blasts from the Final Fantasy series's past. You're leading a ragtag band of heroes through a world map, smashing any monsters or bad guys that pop up along the way.